Quotes About Tolerance

Let's stop "tolerating" or "accepting" difference, as if we're so much better for not being different. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different and to act differently.

Yes, Mr. Popham is a Methodist and I'm a Congregationalist, but I say let the children go where they like, so I always take them with me.

One of the things about being a grown-up is realizing that what you see is only a fraction of what's really happening. And you become less keen on judging people.

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

Never argue Greek legends with a Greek...

A right includes the freedom to use it in ways others find distressing or even wrong.

People who tell you never to let little things bother you have never tried sleeping in a room with a mosquito.

My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.

I'm terrible with patience.

I truly believe that people do the best they can.

Peace is the art of co-existence

Les musulmans en Espagne ne furent persécutés qu'à partir du moment où le clergé était devenu trop puissant par rapport au pouvoir temporel ; celui-ci, qui relève de l'empereur, représente dans ce cas l'universalité ou le « réalisme », et partant la « tolérance », donc aussi, par la force des choses, un certain élément de sagesse.

America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.

Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Myrhvold, for instance, drank at least a six-pack a day of Diet Pepsi. He was, friends joked, "living proof there's no lethal dose for NutraSweet." Navigating

At Clochemerle, the greater number of the men put up with their wives, and the great majority of the women with their husbands. If this hardly amounted to adoration, in the majority of homes at any rate the men and women found each other very nearly endurable.

Casi siempre oí opinar sobre el caso de matrimonios mal venidos en el sentido de que, si el marido falla, la mujer debe, pesar de todo, tolerarlo, sufrir y callar con tal de mantener la vida conyugal" (. ..) "yo vengo de una familia mal avenida; siempre creí que mi madre tenía que haber ahorrado los sufrimientos que le dio mi padre y haber salvado algo de felicidad para su vida

Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.

In Amelia's experience, most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.

But this was classic Sam—he had learned to tolerate the sometimes-painful present by living in the future.

Life is messy," Dr. Lau was fond of saying. "Deal with it. If you're judging it, you're not really seeing it.

Sometimes, this good old world does not much care what you believe.